Happy Valentines Day
February 14th, 2012We recorded this cover a couple years back for a compilation. Maybe you heard it, but we have a hunch that a bunch of you haven’t.
Daniel Johnston is a fascinating artist. I would encourage you to check out this excellent documentary that outlines his life thus far.
Download the track for free. We’ll see you soon.
PS… We’re playing SASQUATCH.
Elegy release show video
January 2nd, 2012Our release show 11/15 at the Neptune theater was one of our highlights of 2011.
We can’t wait to show you more of our new recordings.
C TZAR
November 7th, 2011Your friends are going to freak out and ask you how to make this. It’s awesome. I had been making it with 6-7 cloves of garlic but found myself regretting it the next couple of days…
This makes a couple of HUGE salads. For this one I used 2 heads of Romaine and a ton of delicious crutons from PCC.
What you need
5 Cloves of Garlic
1 Tablespoon Dijon Mustard
2 Tablespoons Mayonnaise
½ Cup Olive Oil
1 Teaspoon Anchovy Paste
1 Tablespoon Vinegar
Salt
Pepper
Finely mince the garlic and sprinkle it with a pinch of salt then using the side of your knife smear it into kind of a paste. Next add the rest of the ingredients to the Mason jar and shake for a good 30 seconds. Take a little taste and salt and pepper to your liking.
The headphone tuner.
September 23rd, 2011During the recording of our new album, we found a fun and useful trick for tuning acoustic instruments that we used often. All that you need is a pair of enclosed headphones with a 1/4 inch jack and a pedal tuner to tune instruments that don’t have a line output or pickup. Before explaining what this trick is, I’d like to explain why it works.
Headphones, or any speaker for that matter, may have more in common with microphones than you would have guessed. They share many of the same components and at a very basic level they have the same task; transduction. A transducer is anything that converts one form of energy to another. In this case, microphones convert sound energy into electrical energy, and speakers turn electrical energy into sound energy. The physical nature of sound energy is periodic variations in positive and negative air pressure, and electrical energy the same but with positive and negative charge. One way that you could think about the similarity between microphones and speakers is that they are essentially the same, only the signal flows in opposite directions.
To tune your instrument using headphones, simply plug the headphone output into the pedal tuner and play the string you need to tune. This method of tuning is not only accurate and dependable, it could save you in a situation where you have an instrument with no pickup and a tuner without a built in microphone.
The peanut butter and sriracha sandwich.
July 20th, 2011I was introduced to peanut-butter sriracha sandwiches through a recommendation from my friend Glynn Ward. Most people are incredulous when I first mention the ingredients, but no one who is bold enough to try it has any negative feedback. The combination definitely gives a nod to Thai flavors (specifically peanut sauce) and the spicy garlic flavor fits in a neat little palette pocket inside the salty and nutty PB.
It’s a controversial concoction. You must be comfortable with the fact that friends and loved ones may openly mock you, perhaps even spread rumors about your personal life. To you I say this: stand strong and believe in yourself and the haters will fade away.
Naturally, like with anything good I discover in the kitchen, I started adding bacon to it. Thus the peanut butter, bacon, sriracha sandwich was born.
The peanut butter, bacon, and sriracha sandwich.
